Ensembles: Die Musiker:


Albert van Veenendaal (the Netherlands) studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory. He works with Dutch and international jazz, worldmusic and classical musicians. He established various groups and played solo concerts. He composed for and played with theatre and dance companies and worked as a composer/ arranger/ producer for Cd projects.

In 2001 he won the Dutch Jazz Competition with his trio On the Line. Recently he composed for the woodwind quintet Calefax, he took part in a series of literary concerts with famous Dutch writers and plays duo with Esmee Olthuis.

From an open viewpoint and interaction with his fellow musicians he creates musical constructions that are unconventional and intuitive.

Meinrad Kneer (Germany) operates mainly on the border region between jazz, improvised music, ethnical music and modern composed music. Recent projects/ensembles are the quartet/septet DALGOO, Bite the Gnatze, Gravitones & Strings, Collision Palace, Vistar, Steven Kamperman's Labyrinth and Gijs Levelt's Deep Fried Angel Fish.

He played with Fred Frith, Najma Akhtar, Paul Termos, Han Bennink, Michael Vatcher, Tristan Honsinger, Jorrit Dijkstra, Tony Overwater, Tobias Delius, Ab Baars and groups such as Barana & Co, Tetzepi, the AXYZ-Ensemble and the Henneman string quartet. In 2002 he won the Jur Naessens Music Prize.


Yonga Sun (Germany/Korea) recently obtained his Master's and was nominated for the Talent Prize of the Academy for Arts in Arnhem. Besides playing big band music with for example the Dutch Big-tet Tetzepi, he plays improvised music in several collaborations with dancers and poets and formed his own Drum 'n' Bass duo.

At the moment he is actively involved in various trio's such as Trio DNS (with Rob van den Broeck & André Nendza) and Unfolding (with Maurits Fondse & Phaedra Kwant). He played Oene van Geel, Robert Jan Vermeulen, Eric van der Westen, Benjamin Herman, Arnold Dooyeweerd, Jasper Blom and others.